Lucy Worsley could do documentary on paint drying and it would be fascinating and fun!

And I'm waiting .....

Lucy Worsley could do a documentary on the Kardashian and make it credible!

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She really is. Lucy has a gift of making history interesting to everyone.

Louis Parsons I LOVE LUCY!! Such an awesome personality. I don’t think there is a subject that she cannot make interesting!! ❤️❤️❤️

There almost is with the blood lines series part 2 I believe. A good part of that one was about Anne

Yes. Please.

Indeed, I'm surprised she hadn't at all developed how the historical record really is. Maybe she could have some historians talk about Anne and do a full documentary.

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I remember a line from a movie (Rob Roy, set in the time of Queen Anne)...the nasty Marquis said, "I've seen livlier graveyards than that woman's womb"

What's wrong with being ugly and bisexual? Obviously being fat can be unhealthy, but the others aren't bad.

A hard life, yes, despite her wealth. Your childhood empathy does you credit. And not forgetting the poor downtrodden masses struggling to survive, often neglected by historians in favour of royalist and "upper-class" versions of history

I have recently found, doing my family tree, Queen Anne was a 1st cousin, so have been doing some research on her life. Poor woman. Apparently from what I have gathered she shared a bed with her husband and was very caring when he was I'll. 17 pregnancies doesn't sound like she was bisexual. She must have been a very busy woman if she was. You need to bear in mind women were close in those days and you can't compare women's relationships in today's standards. A woman would not have been given the emotional and compassionate support of a husband in times of grief over a lost child let alone 17 You would only get that empathy and compassion from another woman, which was most probably the reason for a close friendship. Why do people want to throw sex into the story.

@@shirleyjenkins11 1. I hope you know what bisexual means...LOL! 2. I want to see that you're related to her because you'd have to be directly descended from Charles I of England.

Eighteenth century. The year 1710 is eighteenth, not 17th.

Seventeen hundred=1700s

No wonder she looked a bit rough at the end

Nor me......and this is coming from someone who had a gr-grandfather that fathered 17 children. From the best we can determine 1 of his wives had 14 of the 17 children. 3 children only appear on an old census w/ out the mother's name listed. We think this other mother's name was was on a prior census page (now missing / lost in a fire).

17 dead babies. If I remember right her longest surviving child was 11 when he died. She was desperate for a living child. That had to just be, horrific to be pregnant so often and lose every last one.

Yes and on top of that, most of them didn't survive and 5 died in inphancy.

She was desperate to have an heir to keep the Stuart rule going. After that, it went to Hanover from Germany.

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Is that why your name is "Rushing"? Because someone fled? Sorry 😭 🙇🏾‍♀️ I'll go away now 😬

@@chiranthiem.k.h.1597 it's actually Riesin but Rushing is easier to pronounce

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@@chiranthiem.k.h.1597 Lmao

For me, Queen Anne is my third cousin. It came from my Scottish side.

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Insomnia. A good 👍 way to occupy myself. 😊

And she was just as much trouble to the next queen. She seems to have been the kind of person who ingratiates her way into a relationship then takes over. Narcissistic maybe.

@@Cate7451 Umm wasn't the next Monarch a King?!

superbly random , yes, George 1 was married. His wife was a queen, Queen Sophia Dorothea of Celle, who has a fascinating story as well.

I would LOVE to see The Favourite!! I wish it eere on Netflix.....sigh....

Our public library has it available to check out for free. Great resource!

twotonkatrucks I guess you got the different opinions because it will be seen in different ways. Most people will see it as a story in a film, a dramatised version of a period in our history. Then there will be the annoying people like me, historians who will wonder who on earth the film is about because it bears very little resemblance to what we know factually about Queen Anne and her court and reign. I wonder why the director chose to make a fiction out of a perfectly interesting woman. Why not just make a fictional film like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. The thing is that people who aren't historians will see this and accept it as fact, and so our real history will be rewritten. In time the fiction will become the fact. That has consequences which we can see if we look at our history. To know where we are going we have to know where we have been.

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@@maryg8979 Five were still births. The longest lived died aged about 11 or 12. Who knows if she had a lesbian affair. Probably not as she was devoted to her husband, Prince George of Denmark. There used to be something called romantic friendship. Now, in our sex obsessed time if two people are fond of each other they are lovers. I think we have lost rather a lot.

Not so accurate. Almost all others are so inaccurate that "The Favorite" is by comparison a rather good one, but far from perfect accuracy.

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All but 5 of her children were stillborn. Of those 5, only one lived more than 2 years. He died when he was 11. She must have been beside herself with grief. It must also have been frustrating to know that she was the last of the Stuarts, and that if she couldn't come up with an heir the throne would go to a cranky old German prince. It would be interesting to know what caused the deaths of her children.

I wonder if there is a Lucy fan club. It could be named after the wonderful Lucille Ball show in the 1950s. I Love Lucy.

Yes indeed, all very good point's.However I do believe all the incest played a role in their royal genetic confusion.Checking for a bleeder here or there.......

Stephen Murphy That too. Inbreeding doesn’t help.

You're likely right. With that in mind, it's incredibly ironic how many people are envious about not being royal themselves.

Wealth and privilege that often can’t be exploited, especially now. They make decisions but all of them carry a weight. If they don’t do what’s the powerful wants, their head might be on the ground. They are chained by their wealth and privilege.

It's EXTREMELY historically inaccurate, although it's gotten good reviews.

Its was released a few months ago, just keep in mind they take great liberties in terms of historical accuracy. It is still entertaining.

It’s unlike any other period drama I’ve ever seen, I loved it!

wholeNwon more than likely it was all due to undiagnosed preeclampsia which can trigger a lot of health issues including CHF, Renal failure, and I also think she probably had gestational diabetes which led to diabetes type 2.

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William is related to Churchill through the Spencers.

Well, there is no evidence that such a romance did happen, but there isn't evidence that disproves it either. The only thing it was kinda based on were the letters Anne and Sarah had written each other. Some of them got quite s t e a m y.

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How interesting

Julian Coulden Anne and Sarah exchanged letters and they are exceedingly romantic far beyond what two female friends would say to each other. It’s possible they weren’t actually having sex, but they did have a romantic love for certain. Sarah was well aware of just how inflammatory the letters could be if made public, and she actually did try to blackmail Anne by threatening to have them published. She also accused Abigail of being Anne’s lover. It’s possible this was slander, but since the question of whether or not she was or not is central to the story of the fall of Sarah and rise of Abigail, it had to be included as part of the story, and frankly, it makes sense to me that they would have been. Where there is smoke, there’s fire

Graphic Jack Life was different then, and they had a concept of romantic friendship which we don't have now. We see the letters through the eyes of the 21st century, where such things are sexual. The concept of romantic friendship continued into the early 20th century. It is far from unusual to see pictures of two men walking arm in arm, and it is a central feature of Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited. It is even referred to directly. To modern generations, probably since the 1960s, if two people are affectionate then they are lovers. I think we have lost something by that.

You are absolutely right and put so clearly!

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Clyde Dollarhide Jr me, too! I’m a third cousin through the Denman family. On a different note, are you from Florida? My wife’s family knew a Bill Dollarhide.

Mine too, through the Scott family descent from Charles II.

It was nearly Prince George of Hanover's mother, Sophia, who followed Anne. She was the next heir, a very clever and interesting woman. Because she was heir our parliament passed the Sophia Naturalisation Act in 1705, which said that her descendants would automatically be UK citizens. That means that when Prince Philip became a UK citizen before he married The Queen, he didn't really need to because he already was due to his descent from Sophia. Although she was much older than Anne she was much fitter. Anne disliked her for several reasons, particularly I think, because she was very clever and popular. She refused to accept Sophia, who never came to England. Shortly before her own death, Anne sent Sophia a very nasty letter, which upset her very much. She got caught outside in a thunderstorm and died as a result. That's how we got George I rather than Sophia I.

@@mscott3918 wow thanks for the info! Another person to read about! I love biographies!

@@rhyfelwrDuw Pleasure. I write about history, and a short biography of Sophia will be in my next book but one.

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